Basting apparatus.



PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906.

A. G. R. WILLIAMS. BASTING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT' orrron.

ARTHUR GEORGE RICH WILLIAMS, OF CAMBRIDGE, WAIK-ATO, NEW ZEALAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application iiled January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,398.

To all whom t may concern/.- Be it known that I, ARTHUR GEORGE RICH WILLIAMS, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Rothsay,William street, Cambridge,Waikato, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Basting Apparatus, of whic the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates tothe cooking of meat, poultry, and the like, and provides apparatus for basting the Same during the coo lng process.

According vided with a depending well, and in this W ll is placed the lower end of a tube which e tends upwardly and has its upper end bent to project over the top of the meat. The lower end of the tube is conical, and the upper end of the tube is provided with a nozzle. When the apparatus becomes hot in the oven,'fat

rises up the tube and is discharged through the nozzle upon the meat.

'toward the cylindrical Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. l Fig. 2 is to a larger scale and is a central sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan on AA, Fig. 2; Figi-1, a front elevation of the nozzle, and Fi .5 a correspondin plan.

ey bottom 1 of t e baking-dish inclines well 2,r which is closed at its lower end, has a flan e 3 at its upper end fitting a recess 4 in the lsh, and is screwthreaded to receive a back-nut 5, by which it is clamped in position. The vertical tube 6 is conical at its lower end, which is placed within the well 2, the bottom of the-cone bein a short distance from thebottom of the we l. A ring 7, connected to the tube by arms 8, ts a recess 9 in the bottom of the bakingdish, said ring rojecting -above the recess and having erlirations 10, through which li uid from t e dish flows down into the well.

eupper end of the tube is bent approximately' at right angles and has a nozzle 11 screwed upon its end, said nozzle having three spray -openings 12, 13, and 14. As

hereto the baking-dish isp s many spray-'openings can be used as desired. Legs 15 and 16 su port'the dish at the end opposite to thewel I find inpractice that good results are obtained by making the height of that portion of thetube which projects above the bottomof the bakin -dish three times the de th of the well. If desired, more than one'tule and well can be used, the dish being constructed to cause liquid to flow into the wells.

In operation the basting-fat is placed in tlie bottom of the baking-dish and sufficient water to leave a small quantity upon the bottom of the baking-dish after filling the well. The baking-dish 1s then placed in the oven. As the water and fat become heated the fat rises up the tube and is projected through the nozzle upon the meat. The water is turned into vapor by the heat of the oven, and the expansion of the waterinto vapor forces fat floating above the water up the tube and distributes it upon the meat.

Havin `now particularly described and ascertaine the nature of' my said invention and in what manner formed, I declare that Apparatus for the the same is to be per- What -I claim ispurpose indicated, comrisin in combination, a baking-dish, a tubuar we l closed at its lower end and having a ilpcnge upon its upper end, said flange fitting a re essin the bottom of the baking-dish, a backnut screwing upon the well, a tube having a conical lower,end, a nozzle upon the upper end of said tube, a ring surrounding the tube and arms connecting the tube' with the rin said ring bein erforated and adapted to t a recess in said dish and being so arranged in relation to the tub that the tube is supported with its lower erd above the bottom of the well, substantially as specified herein and A illustrated.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR GEORGE RICH WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

R. S. BALDWIN, I. I. WATSON. 

